Overview
- Berger confirmed he is attached and said the creative team is actively working on the screenplay, which he discussed on a podcast this week in Mallorca.
- Brad Pitt is expected to reprise his role as Gerry Lane, a return that was first reported publicly earlier this year and is tied to Pitt recruiting Berger after their work together on The Riders.
- Dennis Kelly is reported to be writing the screenplay and is noted for having contributed to an earlier, abandoned sequel development under David Fincher.
- Berger said the film could be an ambitious, Nolan- or Villeneuve-scale blockbuster only if the script justifies that scope and he emphasized a priority on not disappointing fans.
- The project has a long history of false starts and costly production issues, including Fincher’s multi-year effort that Paramount shelved in 2019, and the team’s script-first approach aims to avoid repeating those problems and delay a production greenlight until the story is right.